Should Turkey be admitted into the European Union ?

Exposé Politique & international Sciences politiques

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21/04/2008

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Even though Turkey is a very good candidate for an admission into the European Union ..
1. Historical, geographic and geopolitical factors clearly show that an enlargement to turkey would be highly profitable for the european union
2. Turkey, over the past few decades, really changed and is nowadays complying with the Copenhagen criterion
... it may be thought that an enlargement to this country would be at least hurried or premature
1. An enlargement to turkey would be premature because of Turkey's geopolitical, economic and social situation...
2. ... But it would also be very hard for the European Union to integrate Turkey especially if no institutional changes are made

Résumé :

Although many people believe the debate about the admission of turkey into the european union (EU) is very modern and actual, it actually dates back to 1959, just two years after the signing of the Roma Treaty, which created the EU (see appendix 1). In July 1959, 15 days after Greece did so, turkey asked for an association agreement with the EU, which was accepted. This agreement, mainly economic, mentioned that, eventually, turkey would join the EU. In 1963, Walter Hallstein, the then president of the european Commission, declared that "turkey is part of Europe" and that "one day, a final step would be made: turkey would be a full member of the european Commission". In 1987, turkey asked officially for its admission into the EU. Although the european Commission considered at this time that opening the negotiations with turkey would be premature, because of the economic and political situation of this country, it did not reject at all the Turkish candidature. In 1992, at Copenhagen, the members of the EU defined the mandatory criterion a country must respect to join the union. These are the respect of the previous achievements of the community, the existence of a market economy, and the respect of the principles of democracy, including the liberty of speech and the absence of gender discrimination... But in 1997, whereas many Eastern countries did comply with this criterion, turkey did not, and its candidature was rejected by the UE at the Luxemburg council. This led turkey to declare that it was suffering discrimination. Finally, in December 1999, at Helsinki, the Council declared that turkey is a country that has a vocation to joining the EU, and in 2001, an "admission partnership" was signed. On October 3rd 2005, 5 months after the French rejection of the european Constitution, which would have helped turkey to join the EU, the negotiations with turkey about its joining the EU opened.